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School of Business

Open the doors to your future . . . .

Open the door to success in the real business world with your degree from Leighton University. If you are banking on a future in accounting, finance, marketing, sales management, or financial planning, Leighton University will give you the tools necessary to achieve success in every aspect of the real business world. Leighton University takes an innovative approach to preparing traditional and working adults for the challenges of the modern business world. Leighton’s dynamic curricula focus on developing skills that envelop and transcend business so that program graduates have multidimensional abilities, and can contribute on many levels. By infusing the spirit of innovation into our academic programs, Leighton educates leaders capable of anticipating, initiating, and transforming.

Rigor Fitted with Flexibility!
The Business Administration Programs provide a rigorous yet flexible education, integrating foundational theories and principles with modern-day business practice. From the programs, you will have a broad-based business education that includes the development of the necessary skills for solving real-world business problems and communicating solutions.

High-quality Educational Experience
Business students receive a broad base of business knowledge and specific skills in leadership, presentation, and management. We focus on preparing our graduates for success in tomorrow’s world, whether they are seeking meaningful employment or pursuing a graduate degree program. Business students can earn a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Management or Marketing.  Our goal is to provide a high-quality educational experience that will professionally prepare students for careers in business using online technology. You can complete the Associate of Science or the Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration entirely online.

Change your life!
Our online format is ideal for working professionals, enabling you to complete your degree on 18 months on the average as a transfer student. Tailor your degree to your interests and goals with track in Business Marketing or Business Management..

Bachelors of Science Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate the competence to understand accounting information uses by managers, investors, and creditors, including hands-on learning techniques.
  • Demonstrate the ability to use accounting models and techniques essential to business enterprises' administration and accounting cycle and financial statement presentations.
  • Demonstrate the competence to understand accounting information uses by managers, investors, and creditors, including hands-on learning techniques.
  • Demonstrate the competence to use accounting concepts and techniques essential to business enterprises' administration and accounting cycle and financial statement presentations.
  • Demonstrate the competence to understand accounting for manufacturing, including cost accumulation for inventory and income determination, pricing techniques, and capital budgeting decisions.
  • Demonstrate the ability to value and understand risk, returns, portfolio theory, capital budgeting, dividend policy, long-term financing decisions, liquidity, and concepts to plan and measure profitability.

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate the capacity to appraise and understand returns, effective decision making, risk, returns, management theories, planning, critical thinking, and measuring profitability through case studies, projects, and other assignments.
  • Demonstrate the capacity to understand the uses of technology concepts by managers, including hands-on learning techniques.
  • Demonstrate the capacity to understand ethical behavior and social responsibility in the workplace and satisfy stakeholders' interests.
  • Demonstrate the capacity to use effective communication skills – both written and oral – through business plans, case studies, and/or oral presentations and research papers.
  • Demonstrate an appropriate level of learning competencies across business disciplines (i.e., courses) encompassing each core business curriculum's functional area.
  • Demonstrate satisfactory skills and aptitudes in doing business across international boundaries and discuss the impact of global competitiveness.

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Develop in-depth knowledge on identifying, attracting, and evaluating customers
  • Learn and use information technology tools for customer research and strategic performance
  • Create and sustain safe learning environments that prepare diverse students for the workplace, advanced training and continued education;
  • Model personal and professional attributes and leadership skills that reflect productive life and work roles as well as implement and maintain collaborative partnerships with students, colleagues, community, business, industry and families that maximize resources and promote student self-sufficiency;
  • Evaluate marketing alternatives and commit to a course of action, using financial, organizational, environmental and ethical criteria to guide decision-making
  • Demonstrate workplace competencies in keyboarding and digital input, information technology clusters, information systems management, information processing applications, technical communications, principles of entrepreneurship, business management, accounting & computation, economics & finance, international business and business law;
  • Apply marketing skills, doing client-based projects, company internships, community service, and managing student organizations.

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Associates of Science Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate the skills to understand accounting information uses by managers, investors, and creditors, including hands-on learning techniques.
  • Demonstrate the skills to appreciate accounting for manufacturing, including cost accumulation for inventory and income determination, pricing techniques, and capital budgeting decisions.
  • Demonstrate the skills to evaluate and identify risk, returns, portfolio theory, capital budgeting, dividend policy, long-term financing decisions, liquidity, and concepts to plan and measure profitability.
  • Demonstrate the skills to use accounting concepts and procedures essential to business enterprises' administration and accounting cycle and financial statement presentations.

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate the capability to evaluate and understand risk, management theories, effective decision making, returns, planning, critical thinking, and measuring profitability through case studies, projects, and other assignments.
  • Demonstrate the capability to understand the uses of technology concepts by managers, including hands-on learning techniques.
  • Demonstrate the capability to understand ethical behavior and social responsibility in the workplace and satisfy stakeholders' interests.
  • Demonstrate the capacity to use effective communication skills, both written and oral, through business plans, case studies, and/or oral presentations and research papers.
  • Demonstrate an acceptable level of learning competencies across business disciplines (i.e., courses) encompassing each core business curriculum's functional area.
  • Demonstrate adequate skills and abilities in doing business across international boundaries and discuss the impact of global competitiveness on multinational organizations through internships, research, and/or presentations.

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Develop in-depth knowledge on identifying, attracting, and evaluating customers
  • Learn and utilize information technology tools for customer research and strategic performance.
  • Create and manage a safe learning environment that prepares all students for the workplace, advanced training, and continued education.
  • Model personal and professional qualities, attributes, and leadership skills reflect productive life and work roles and device and manage collaborative partnerships with students, colleagues, community, business, industry, and families that maximize resources and promote student self-sufficiency.
  • Evaluate marketing options and alternatives and commit to a course of action, using financial, organizational, environmental, and ethical criteria to guide decision-making.
  • Reveal workplace competencies in keyboarding and digital input, information technology clusters, information systems management, information processing applications, technical communications, principles of entrepreneurship, business management, accounting & computation, economics & finance, international business, and business law;